Post Meister

With the news that Astra SES-Global have just commissioned two new (Pan-European footprint) satellites - comes a little hope.

If the launch of 1KR is successful (the last one wasn't, hence the 'R' presumably), then that and 1L will both head toward 19.2°E.

The hope is that by 2006 Astra 2C will be released. They haven't said yet were too, but, one assumes it will jolly along to 28.2°E (where, IMHO, it should have been parked in the first place: like '2'C suggests 28.2°E doesn't it?).

Astra 2C has a pan-european footprint too :-righton - Astra 2D doesn't O-no as many of us know.

I only mention all this (well, requote it) - because I was of the understanding that Astra had every intention of commissioning more of those nasty birds that can focus their beam tightly (like across six countries as opposed to eight).